How to generate random entryop for GnuPG

Jan

2010

Submitted by Nick on Fri, 22nd Jan 2010 - 12:52 and has been commented on 5 times.

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Has anyone every tried to generate a GPG (or GnuPG) key? I have… and I received this error…

Not enough random bytes available.  Please do some other work to give
the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 284 more bytes)

I was remotely logged into the machine (over SSH) so couldn't physically move the mouse or press keys to generate random entropy. The solution turned out to be simply running the following command in a second SSH Shell.

ls -R /

As soon as I ran that, the gpg command in the other window instantly finished creating my 2048 bit key.

5 Comments

The most recent comment was on Thu, 2nd Feb 2012 - 20:44

You made my day! Thanks

Aug

2011

Submitted by ahmad (not verified) on Wed, 24th Aug 2011 - 11:47

You made my day! Thanks kindly for the great tip

Thanks for the tip! I got my

Nov

2011

Submitted by Victor Santos (not verified) on Sat, 19th Nov 2011 - 20:54

Thanks for the tip! I got my key finished almost instantly too!

It worked superbly !! Thanks

Dec

2011

Submitted by Abhishek (not verified) on Tue, 20th Dec 2011 - 22:47

It worked superbly !! Thanks again

Fantastic :)

Jan

2012

Submitted by Marin (not verified) on Sat, 14th Jan 2012 - 16:21

Fantastic :)
Simple and effective. Thanks!

Doesn't work -.-

Feb

2012

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2nd Feb 2012 - 20:44

Doesn't work -.-
Before(Need 284 more bytes)
After (Need 280 more bytes)

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